Three reasons to dine out this Labor Day weekend in Palm Beach

At The Colony’s Polo Steaks & Seafood, which will be closed starting next week for renovations, dining comes with pool and garden views.

Last call, opening bell and a clam bake: There are reasons to dine out at certain Palm Beach restaurants this weekend, which is a three-day affair thanks to Labor Day on Monday.

First, consider The Colony’s Polo Steaks & Seafood, 155 Hammon Ave. (www.thecolonypalmbeach.com): It’ll be your last chance until Oct. 10 because the hotel closes this Tuesday for five weeks in order to execute renovations.

Polo Steaks & Seafood will be open through lunch service this Sunday. Until then, breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served daily. At lunch, perhaps consider the watermelon-and-heirloom tomato salad ($14) with mozzarella and basil from The Colony’s herb-and-vegetable garden.

A dinner consideration: one of the Prime, dry-aged beef cuts (starting at $42).

It’s slated to feature seafood chowder, followed by clams, mussels, shrimp and lobster with traditional accompaniments such as corn-on-the-cob and cole slaw. The feast is $34.95 a person. Look for live musical entertainment in The Leopard, too.

Meanwhile, Monday is the kickoff of the September-long dining promotion, Flavor Palm Beach (www.flavorpb.com), and 13 restaurants on the island are participating, offering value-priced (relative to high season) three-course menus at lunch and/or dinner.

Three-course lunch menus are $20; three-course dinner menus are $30 or $35, although Café L’Europe, 331 S. County Road, is taking its own tack with a $48.50 price.